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- Continued: For Aveda, the problem with common scents - Minneapolis Star Tribune
For years, "the nose" of Aveda has traveled the Amazon River in Brazil, the flower fields of Corsica and the banks of the Nile in Egypt in search of his aromatic holy grail: a lone, elusive ingredient that just might defy mother nature. But more ...
- Authors grieve over apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, writer of "Infinite Jest" (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - The literary world is in grief for David Foster Wallace, an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition who apparently killed himself last week.
- Girls Fall Down - PopMatters
PopMattersGirls Fall DownPopMatters, IL - 3 hours agoSome might consider it a bit of a comedown: that after six books of poetry and at least one novel published by a major publisher (Knopf Canada’s Between ...
- The Butterfly Girl - North County Times
Rays of late-morning sunshine filter through the white miniblinds of Cristina Perez's window and illuminate the vivid patchwork of purple and red sores that cover her pale, 4-foot, 10-inch body. Bending slowly forward on a padded table, Cristina, 23 ...
- How does a headteacher cope with a pupil's murder? - Guardian Unlimited
Floral tributes to Ben Kinsella, the 17th teenager to die violently in London this year. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Hours before the funeral of knife victim 16-year-old Ben Kinsella late last week, another teenager was stabbed to death ...
- July 2008 - Weekly Standard
CNN's Roland Martin argues that Obama's big mistake was that mentioned "Bush, then McCain" then lobbed the charge that "they" would make racist attacks. Had Obama simply referred to "bloggers, columnists, conservative talk show hosts ... he would ...
- A New Piece Among the Old, but Not at All Foreign - New York Times
A New Piece Among the Old, but Not at All ForeignNew York Times, United States - 11 hours agoPoetry has provided the spark for some of his strongest creations; “Chains Like the Sea,†an instrumental work about 20 minutes long, was inspired by Dylan ...
- Faraz the poet - GreaterKashmir.com (press release)
Faraz the poetGreaterKashmir.com (press release), India - 2 hours agoThe revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmad Faraz, whose name is synonymous in south Asia with modern Urdu poetry, passed away on 25th August 08 in Islamabad due ...
- Meet Mixed Media - Electric City
Meet Mixed MediaElectric City, PA - 40 minutes agoHe and girlfriend Jennifer Hill-Kaucher pull the strings behind the local poetry publisher Paper Kite Press, and they recently relocated Hill-Kaucher's Word ...
- 'Madame Butterfly' (LA.com)
This "Butterfly" doesn't fly
- "The Lucky Ones": When soldiers return home (Seattle Times)
"The Lucky Ones": This attempt to create an Iraq-war home-front classic like "The Best Years of Our Lives" has its moments, but the story line about three returning veterans (played by Tim Robbins, Rachel McAdams and Michael Peña) is predictable.
- Danube Express: Awaken, not stirred - Independent
Danube Express: Awaken, not stirredIndependent, UK - 8 hours agoBond's train, he wrote, "throbbed with the tragic poetry of departure". What, I wonder, would Bond have thought of the train claimed to "set new standards ...
- Using the power of poetry to help highlight troubles - Worthing Today
Using the power of poetry to help highlight troublesWorthing Today, UK - 2 hours agoAn orthotist has used poetry to reflect the emotions of a broken Zimbabwe father left to nurse his innocent son's wounds following an attack in the ...
- Peace rally to stop violence in city - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Peace rally to stop violence in cityPittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 2 hours agoMany of the children took the stage to perform rap songs, spoken-word poetry, traditional African dances and drum circles. Their performances were followed ...
- TripAdvisor Tells Tale of 10 Cities Where the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
TripAdvisor®, the world's largest travel community, today announced the top 10 literary destinations in the world, according to TripAdvisor editors. These locations have either been the home or inspiration to many of the greatest writers in Western civilization, and feature remarkable attractions as tributes to those authors, for travelers to enjoy today.
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